Hobo 1.0 – A Rapid Rails Web App Builder – Released

Hobo , an open source rapid web app builder for Ruby on Rails, has officially reached Version 1.0 after three years of focused development effort by the Hobo community and sponsorship support from Barquin International in Washington, DC. (Ed note: Hobo was first covered by Ruby Inside just over 3 years ago!) As part of the celebration the Hobo team are releasing a bunch of new stuff for newcomers and the community to enjoy. As well as a shiny new logo, they're releasing two free ebooks designed to help Hobo developers quickly and easily make the most of the popular toolset — Rapid Rails with Hobo (an introductory book) and Hobo at Work (a more detailed guide) The current version of Hobo has changed a lot since the early days of the beta, with a number of new features designed to make it super easy to create Rails applications. There's a sophisticated built-in migration gen...